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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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